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The president also called for undoing the Bush tax cuts for upper-income taxpayers, and for canceling other tax cuts many of them receive such as the mortgage interest deduction — which he called “spending reductions in the tax code.

Obama outlines his deficit-reduction policy - Washington Times

It’s not doublespeak—it’s just a positive subversion of traditional linguistic definition.

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He carefully and artfully avoided any video clip of him saying “I’m going to raise taxes” that could be played over and over again on FOXNews and in campaign and issue ads for the next two years. You would do the same thing.

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How fucked up is it that a rational man will be crucified for saying that rich people should pay proportionally higher taxes? Why aren’t more average people upset that multinational corporations pay a proportionally lower tax rate than folks on welfare? Are corporate marketing/lobbying teams really that good?

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  2. squashed said: It’s using the tax code to promote a desired policy end—which means less revenue. Whether or not you like the term, I’d think you’d support Obama’s efforts to eliminate that sort of meddling In the market.
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